FRIGID NEW YORK PRESENTS A ...performance tube creation PRODUCTION OF CRACK'd (www.crackdshow.com) written and Performed by Catherine Montgomery, directed by Samantha Madely
Trace Morgan's mother is dead. Trace will do whatever it takes to forget. She travels through the night and ultimately finds what she's looking for in a familiar face... the eccentric child protege Tracey Joy. Through Space Exploration, Jack Daniels, and the dreaded ‘Emotional Overload', together they draw a map of human experience that transcends age and circumstance. In this "tough yet vulnerable" (Montreal Gazette) tale of the art of letting go, we meet two women on The Edge of love and death; huge in character and deep in heart.
CRACK'd will play: Thursday Feb 25th - 9:30 pm, Saturday Feb 27th - 12:30 pm, Sunday Feb 28th - 3:30 pm, Tuesday March 2nd - 9:30 pm, Thursday March 4th - 6:30 pm, Saturday March 6th - 8:00 pm At The Red Room, 85th East 4th Street as part of
The 2010 New York FRIGID Festival, February 24 - March 7. Tickets $13.00 may be purchased online at www.FRIGIDnewyork.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.
Catherine Montgomery - Writer/Performer
Catherine toured CRACK'd (formerly known as Straight from that side of town) in a 7-City Canadian National Fringe Tour this past summer. Catherine is a theatre artist whose experience includes writing, performance, music composition, choreography, sound design and teaching. From her Toronto home she is a Graduate of: York University's MFA Acting Program with a Diploma in Voice, Vancouver's Studio 58 Professional Theatre Training Program, Calgary's One Yellow Rabbit Summer Lab Intensive, and Barcelona's Ettiene Decroux Physical Theatre Workshop with Else Mechanics. Catherine has taught Voice, Movement and Acting at York University, Studio 58 and Canada's National Voice Intensive (UBC, Vancouver); and in a previous life also attended the University of Victoria for Political Science. Recent York University acting credits include ‘Dr. Bravo' in The Bewitched (directed by Nigel Shawn Williams) and ‘The Woman' in The Bundle (directed by Alan Dilworth). Catherine's five year plan includes: get a bouvier, learn to knit/sew, learn French and/or Italian, move out of the basement (finally), and to win a Monistat/Tide/Baked Lays commercial to finance future collaborations with Samantha Madely and the performance tube.
Samantha Madely - Director/Dramaturge
Samantha Madely is a theatre actor, writer, and director. Since graduating from Vancouver's Studio 58 Acting Program in 2004, Samantha has been working on stages throughout Canada in both English and French with some of BC's most exciting companies such as Vancouver's Theatre Replacement (Bioboxes; which completed a sold-out run at Toronto's Theatre Centre in April '09), Theatre la Seizieme (La Vue d'en Haut; as part of BC Scene, April ‘09, Ottawa), Armstrong BC's beloved Caravan Farm Theatre (Mother Courage), and Victoria's Theatre SKAM ({sic}); as well as Vancouver favorites Carousel Theatre, Chemainus Theatre and Blackbird Theatre. Her first play ‘Theirs' was produced as part of Studio 58's Fourplay:New Work by Excited Writers. Samantha is especially inspired by multi-disciplinary collaboration and is a proud founding member of Vancouver's ONE+ONE and Toronto's the performance tube.
CAT AND SAM CREATED THE PERFORMANCE TUBE TO MAKE THINGS MORE INTERESTING
The FRIGID New York Festival was founded by Horse Trade and EXIT Theatre in 2007. Since founding The San Francisco Fringe Festival - the 2nd oldest fringe in the United States - nearly 17 years ago, EXIT has learned a thing or two about festival running. They introduced Horse Trade to the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) in mid-2006. Besides feedback from dozens of thrilled CAFF participants and artists, Horse Trade was drawn to its main principle: "...to provide all artists, emerging and established, with the opportunity to produce their play no matter the content, form or style and to make the event as affordable and accessible as possible for the members of the community," Horse Trade is proud to sign on to the tradition and chill out the New York independent theater scene's ideas of what a theatre festival can be. In true support of theatre on the fringe of the mainstream, the artists take home 100% of their box office, and the festival producers do not receive royalties from future performances. The festival's producers are proud to support self-producing artists' growth and future success. New York City is an indisputable hotbed of groundbreaking talent and we're proud to once again invite artists to take advantage of this opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination.
